Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant J. W. Parsons, 10th Hussars, later Lieutenant-Colonel and Resident for the Lord High Commissioner in Zante, in which appointment he was created C.M.G. in August 1839

Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. J. W. Parsons, 10th Royal Reg. Hussars.) fitted with replacement silver clip and bar suspension, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £4,000-£5,000

John Whitehill Parsons was born on 2 October 1785, in Edinburgh, and was baptised on 17 October 1785 at Christ Church, Oxford, where the church record indicates that he was the ‘posthumous child of the late John Parsons, M.D., and formerly student of this college’. He was gazetted as a Cornet into the 19th Dragoons on 25 September 1804, transferred as Lieutenant to the 10th Light Dragoons on 3 December 1805, and was promoted to Captain on 21 September 1815. He was promoted to Major and placed on half-pay on 11 July 1826, and advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel, unattached, on 23 November 1841.
On 30 August 1839, Major Parsons, Resident for the Lord High Commissioner in Zante, was nominated and appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. At this period the order was restricted in the lowest Class to just twenty-five Cavalieri or Companions. Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Parsons, C.M.G., died at the Palace, Corfu, on 20 April 1848, aged 63.